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Male nurse organization combats stereotypes A llie C rome acrome@esubulle tin.com

A nursing organization that formed last year called Emporia Men’s Assembly of Nurses aims to help combat the surprise and stereotypes that male nurses often face. It also provides a space for male nurses at ESU to meet and discuss all factors which affect men as nurses.

“It’s obviously not a male-dominated occupation, patients are a little bit surprised sometimes when they see a male nursing student walk in the room,” said Ruben Rodriguez, president of EMAN and senior nursing major.

Over the last 10 years, the ESU nursing department has had a range of 2 percent to 8 percent of males in their overall class, according to Linda AdamsWendling, chair of the nursing department and adviser for EMAN. This is consistent with the Kansas percentage of 8 percent and congruent with the 8 percent to 15 percent national average.

“There is a lot of interest, but because of stereotypes associated with it a lot of them don’t pursue it or they

Ruben Rodriguez, president of EMAN and senior nursing major, and Asher Huseman, sophomore nursing major, demonstrate how to check a heartbeat on “Al,” the simulation model, Wednesday in Cora Miller Hall. Rodriguez aims to help recruit more male nursing students from local high schools. Sarah Spoon| The Bulletin

just don’t have a male nurse role model whom they can look up to, they don’t think of it as something a male can do,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez, with the help of EMAN, hopes to perform outreach and visit local high schools to talk to students about nursing, either

this semester or next fall.

“Go out to the high school to talk to some of these students, especially the males, to let them know ‘hey, it’s okay to do nursing,’ just because it’s a predominantly female thing it’s still fine, if that’s what you truly want to do, it’s

fine,” Rodriguez said.

EMAN is open to any nursing student at ESU, regardless of gender, and to nursing professionals.

According to Rodriguez, it’s an opportunity for both male and female nursing students to collaborate and to try and recruit more

Commercial Street businesses offer Valentine’s specials

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Maria Lawrence, owner of Ellen Plumb’s City Bookstore, 1122 Commerical St., displays some of the items Tuesday in her store that will be available during the Valentine’s Day sale from Feb. 12 to 14. Other stores that will also have Valentine’s specials include The Sweet Granada, 803 Commercial St., Designs by Sharon, 703 Commercial St. and Twin Rivers Winery and Gourmet Shop, 627 Commercial St. Gabriel Molina Maruda | The Bulletin msheckells@esubulle tin.com

Many local businesses on Commercial Street are offering specials or events for Valentine’s day.

“We all have different types of valentines, we’ve got our grandkids and we’ve got our co-workers, and of course we have our spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend and significant others,” said Kim Redeker, owner of The Sweet Granada, 803 Commercial Street. “So, we kind of have a neat variety of gifts that kind of fit all those Valentines.”

The Sweet Granada will be selling custom candy gift sets ranging in price from $9.95 to $49.95, but Redeker

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males into the profession.

“This association is the only one in Kansas and so again, our nursing students showing how progressive they are,” Adams-Wendling said. “I couldn’t be more proud of them and their leadership abilities...our males that are in our program, they have to work just as hard as anyone else coming into the program.”

According to Rodriguez, most of the negative reactions come from those outside the nursing program.

“I think it’s really amazing, because we don’t see a lot of issues here in our program,” Rodriguez said.

“Usually when you hear these negative connotations about a male nurse, it’s usually outside of the university or people who don’t really understand male nursing or aren’t familiar, haven’t had experience with hospitals and having a male nurse.”

The main problem that he and other male nurses encounter is patient communication and the usage of therapeutic touch, Rodriguez said.

said their biggest special is the chocolate covered strawberries that are made to order just for Valentine’s Day. These come in half and full dozens for $14.95 and $28.95 respectively.

“We’re having a Valentine’s dinner for sweethearts and it is on Feb. 14,” said Diana Wilhite, clerk at Twin Rivers Winery and Gourmet Shop, 627 Commercial St. “It’s a four-course meal

by Radius, and it has wine pairings.”

The Valentine’s dinner is at 6 p.m. and costs $90 per couple. Those interested must purchase tickets from the winery by Feb. 12 .

Ellen Plumb’s City Bookstore, 1122 Commercial St., will be offering the second

annual Plumb’s Poets on February 12-14 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The cost is five dollars per poem, which goes directly to the poet. They also offer exclusive chocolate and lavender truffles.

“We’ll be offering people the opportunity to come in and have an original poem composed for them or someone they love and written out by a poet,” said Marcia Lawrence, owner of Ellen Plumb’s.

Designs by Sharon, 703 Commercial St., will be delivering rose arrangements with free sweets as a Valentine’s special if they are ordered to be delivered on

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The president of the Faculty Senate declined at Tuesday’s meeting to release a copy of a cryptic letter, from the university president, that he read to the assembly. The letter seemed to fulfill the university president’s obligation to inform the senate of a decision regarding a particular faculty member, but the nature of the matter was not clear and the faculty member involved was not identified.

Rob Catlett, the Faculty Senate president and assistant professor of economics, asked that no mention of the letter appear in The Bulletin’s coverage. He gave no explanation after the meeting, other than to say it was a matter he was forbidden from discussing.

On Wednesday, The Bulle-

tin filed an Open Records Act Request by email to Catlett for the letter. After insisting during a phone conversation Wednesday that he was “absolutely certain” that the letter was not subject to the state’s open records law, and protesting that producing the letter would cause him a personal inconvenience because he was attending a Hornet basketball game, Catlett sent an email of the letter at 8:03 p.m.

The Bulletin’s attorney, Max Kautsch of Lawrence, said earlier Wednesday that he believed the letter was clearly subject to the Kansas Open Records Act. “There is no public policy reason to refuse to disclose

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Pia has been at the shelter since Jan. 24. She is very Playful , energetic, and sweet.

Those interested in adopting Pia should fill out an application to adopt at the Emporia Kansas Animal Shelter, 1216 Hatcher St. Pia, like all animals at the shelter, was picked up as a stray. Infographic By Kalliope Craft| The Bulletin

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Police Panel holds open discussion of lies Reports D ustin B ittel dbit tel@esubulle tin.com

A poet, pastor and philosopher held an open discussion of lies with attending Emporia State students, faculty and community members last Thursday. The panel discussed how each of their backgrounds dealt with truth and lies, today’s age of alternative facts and fake news and answered questions from those in attendance.

“My concern is that right now most of the folks I talk to go ‘Well if everybody is lying then what’s the point?’ and we all just shut off,” said Phyllis Stutzman, pastor of Emporia Presbyterian Church. “It’s not that we’re even looking for truth anymore we just assume everything is a lie so what’s the point. That’s where I start to get nervous, when you decided that looking for any sort of underlying truth is irrelevant.”

During the panel, Kevin Rabas, chair of English, modern languages and journalism, spoke about the importance of truths.

“Giving journalists a bad name is not a good thing for our society so that worries me as a citizen,” Rabas said. “That part of the power structure of politics is what worries me because I want to get at the truth whatever that may be. We can have simple truths but can we get to this essential truth?”

Charles Emmer, associ-

ate professor of philosophy, brought up an essay written

by Harry Frankfurt titled “On Bullshit” which describes three types of people, liars, truth-tellers and the bullshit artist.

“The difference is that both the liar and the truth teller actually care about the truth, the liar has to try to deceive you by making it match the truth somehow,” Emmer said. “The bullshit artist doesn’t care about

Kautsch said.

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Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of Valentine’s day week.

“Whenever anyone orders a dozen roses from us, you’ll get four cupcakes, two choco-

“There has been research in memory that suggests that we never recall reality. That it’s going to be somehow colored by what we’ve perceived since that event or just the time of day, our state, our mood, it’s not going to be the same. Everything we recall is going to be fictional to an extent.”

Neither a date nor a topic for the next Poet, Pastor and Philosopher panel has been set.

Phyllis Stutzman, panelist for Discussion of Lies and pastor of Emporia Presbyterian Church, discussed how the church looks at lying and what counts as lying. Also among the panelists for the series Poet, Pastor and Philosopher were Kevin Rabas, chair of English, modern languages and journalism, Charles Emmer, associate professor of philosophy, and guest panelist Kelly McEnerney, assistant professor of developmental psychology. Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin

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the truth or falsehood, they just like to bullshit.”

Panel members also discussed how our brains perceive information and the differences between reality and what people are able to recall.

“With recognition, everything we recall, is not going to be a photograph of what you experience,” said Kelly McEnerney, assistant professor of developmental psychology.

late and two vanilla along with your dozen rose arrangement,” said Sharon Ewing, owner of Designs by Sharon. “(They cost) $79.95, that’s arranged in a vase and everything.”

They deliver throughout Emporia, as well as offering other specials throughout the store.

Corrections

In last week’s story on the new Studio E design collective, Rosalie Krenger was incorrectly identified as the general manager of Studio E and the director of the Donald Reichardt Center. Krenger is the general manager of both Studio E and the Reichardt Center. Amy Sage Webb, professor of English, is the director of the Reichardt Center.

In the same story, due to a copy editing error, the Donald Reichardt Center was misspelled as the “Doland” Reichardt Center.

a decision about a faculty member involved in a grievance or disciplinary hearing.

The faculty member was not named in Garrett’s letter.

There were also no details provided about the matter in question.

A grievance hearing can be called by the university to internally settle a dispute with a faculty member over grades, conduct, or other matters.

“I confirm that I provided a notice of this section to the faculty member, who by written notice advised me to notify you that a decision had been rendered,” Garrett said in the letter, which was conveyed in email to Catlett on Dec. 22. “The faculty member did not wish for a copy of the decision to be provided to you.”

After providing The Bulletin with a copy of the letter, Wednesday night, Catlett declined to be interviewed.

When Catlett read the letter at Tuesday’s meeting, many found it difficult to understand the text because of the noise in the room, the speed at which it was read and the lack of explanation about the letter before or after it was read. There were no questions asked about

the letter, and Catlett said afterward that if anyone had asked a question, he would have had to “sit there in silence.”

Although Garrett’s letter did not make it clear which sections of the University Policy Manual was being referred to in citing the 20 day time limit, the only section in the manual with similar language is the grievance policy.

“The University President shall, within 20 days of receipt of the report from the Grievance Committee, provide to all parties to the grievance and the Grievance Committee a written memorandum setting forth his/her decision and the reasons for that decision,” according to the manual’s section on dispute resolution. “The University President shall give due consideration to the recommendations of the Grievance Committee in making his/her decision.”

The language quoted above is from the university manual section on disputes, grievances, and mediation.

Under the policy, a wide range of problems on campus can be subject to formal action, including professional and academic misconduct.

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Reports from ESU Police and Safety Jan. 31 Officers provided lock out assistance for KS 727FNG at 905 East.

Feb. 1 Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 453KHL at 1829 Merchant St. Female student requested to speak with officer about an ongoing situation. Handled by officers.

Officer responded to a report of a stray dog in Wilson Park. Dog was returned to the owner.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 532HHC at 728 Valley Dr. Feb. 2 Male student requested to speak to an officer at ESU PD HQ. Report taken.

Staff member requested to speak with an officer at the Center for Early Childhood Education.

Officer stopped KS 496JWC in 1000 Commercial. Verbal warning for defective brake light.

Officer provided jump start assistance for KS 394HPW at 905 East.

Feb. 3 Officer stopped KS 679GMB in Kellogg Circle.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 95AMR at 3302 W 18th.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a call at 1610 Center.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a possible stolen vehicle call at 105 W 12th.

Feb. 4 Memorial Union zone 115 Fire. Webb Hall northwest doors.

Unknown problem.

Kayla Smith reported the hot water in Central Morse Hall and Northeast Morse Hall is not working. ESU PD Dispatch called John Schierling. He will come in.

Feb. 5 Officers provided jump start assistance for MO KM0L2N at 603 E 11th.

Officers provided lock out assistance for KS 697HWL at 1839 Merchant.

Female faculty member requested to speak with an officer at the WAW Library Room 212.

Female faculty member requested to speak with an officer at Science Hall Room 162.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 488DVL in Lot 11.

Officer responded to a report of a toilet overflowing in Northeast Morse Hall Room 219.

Officer escorted a male student from Newman Regional Health to 12th and Merchant-CVS. Feb. 6 Officers stopped KS N0YNN at 12th and Sylvan. Verbal warning for a one-way violation at 12th and Market.

Officers checked the welfare of occupants of KS 491AUE in Kellogg Circle. No problem was found.

Officers assisted operator of KS 202FNP in the east Twin Tower Complex loading zone. Vehicle was moved.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a welfare check at 608 Whildin.

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ESU grad student founds SlothHead Press R ayna K arst rkarst@esubulle tin.com

Using skills that she has learned through the creative writing and English programs at Emporia State and connections from the literary community that she has built around her, Katelyn Dorrell, graduate English major with an emphasis in creative writing, has made her ambition to publish literary works a reality by creating the SlothHead Press.

“This is not just something that I could have done by myself,” Dorrell said. “It’s a collaborative effort, and I’m just really thankful that I’ve had this kind of support system to bring my dream to fruition.”

Dorrell holds a graduate assistantship for the creative writing program, which involves work on publications and all aspects of the creative writing program that involve layout, design, planning and communication, according to Amy Sage Webb, professor of English.

Dorrell also teaches a section of Introduction to Creative Writing and has other experience working with young writers.

Last semester, Dorrell received a Best of the Nest award, which is issued by the Student Advising Center and is based off of student recommendations, Webb said.

“She’s good at it,” Webb said.

“In starting up her own press, she was going to need to draw from all of those areas of her expertise.”

Dorrell has used her skills with publishing as well as networking and communicating with others in the literary community to bring this project to life, Webb said.

“No publication or press ever succeeds without a whole community around it. It just doesn’t happen,” Webb said. “What I see her doing is drawing from the community that she has built around herself.”

Dorrell works and communicates with illustrators, authors, presses and printers in order to accomplish her goals with SlothHead, she said. She is currently collaborating with Hailey East, ESU alumna, among others.

“We were in creative writing classes, and she (Dorrell) has always been a very creative and intelligent person,” East said. “She has a great enthusiasm for any story that I always appreciated.”

SlothHead Press, which is not affiliated with Dorrell’s work at ESU, began work in Oct. 2017, and has worked on both children’s and chapter books, according to Dorrell.

“This is very much a brand new thing, but I’m really excited about it and the opportunities I’ve gotten through the creative writing department and with the English program to learn how to do all of these things,” Dorrell said. “And learning how to collaborate with people who have different artistic visions and create cohesive relationships with different people is a really valuable skill.”

Dorrell is currently working on her master’s thesis and plans to graduate this May, she said. Going forward after graduation, she would like to see SlothHead grow and prosper.

“The dream is that I would work with SlothHead Press full time, but it is going to take a while to get it off the ground,” Dorrell said. “So I’m thinking that I’ll probably continue to teach like I do as a GTA now, probably adjunct, and then keep working on publishing until it can hopefully grow to the point where it’s a full time gig.”

Katelyn Dorrell, graduate student and creative writing GTA, helps Margaret Clark, sophomore nursing major, with an assignment during class Tuesday in Plumb Hall.

Dorrell created her own press, SlothHead Press, which opened last October and can be found at slothheadpress. com. Gabriel Molina Maruda | The Bulletin

Nerf Nation changes meeting frequency due to new MU after hour policy M egan S heckells msheckells@esubulle tin.com

Brad Roush, third year member of Nerf Nation and junior fine arts major, prepares for the next round of Team Deathmatch. Over the course of the year, Nerf Nation has made changes such as only having orange tips on the guns due to the concealed carry law and meeting monthly because of new Memorial Union policy. Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin

Nerf Nation is changing the frequency of their meetings from bi-weekly to once a month, due to the new Memorial Union policy change that went into effect this semester.

“Because of the new union policy where any after hours RSO has to pay 25 dollars an hour we’re just doing one a month now,” said Theodore Wheeler, junior psychology major and president of Nerf Nation. “We worked out with the union that we could have one meet a month that was free after hours but then all the rest we’d have to pay.

They plan to continue the once a month meetings next year as well. The rest of the meet-up dates this semester will be on March 18, April

1 and April 29, according to Wheeler.

“We’re only having one meet in April apart from the free one, so that one’s getting paid for by us,” Wheeler said. “So, anything that we’ve had to pay for, our council has kind of paid for out of pocket, but we don’t usually have too many expenses.”

Any of the additional meeting fees will go to the union scheduling offices for the university.

Nerf nation meetings take place at 8 p.m. when Memorial Union after-hours start.

Wheeler also shared about the rule that all guns have to have an orange tip or they will be asked to put it away.

“If they continue to bring it and it’s a problem I’m just

going to tell them that they can’t come back,” Wheeler said. “For the most part we usually have the same people every night, so they know if they want to keep coming they have to follow the rules and everything.”

In the case of someone not owning a nerf gun but wanting to participate there is a community “pile” or bag of guns available for use for anyone according to Les Parks, junior history major and member of Nerf Nation.

“Well I think the people are pretty cool, and it’s (Nerf Nation) kind of a unique thing,” said Maria Guilford, sophomore social sciences education major, and member of Nerf Nation.

“I really liked Nerf guns growing up and to have this at college it’s really fun.”

Cupboard supplies thousands of canned goods A llie C rome acrome@esubulle tin.com

Since the beginning of 2018, Corky’s Cupboard has given out approximately 1,000 items to students.

Since August 2017, Corky’s Cupboard has given out 8,528 items, as of Feb. 6, according to Pantry Works.

In the four years that they have operated, they’ve given out 38,584 items to students, as of Feb. 6.

Although they recieve items from the Can the Bods event during the fall semester, it isn’t enough to sustain them throughout the remainder of the year and they are always in need of donations, according to Munashe Mangwendeza, Community Hornets Coordinator and senior accounting major.

“We definitely need other donations throughout the year because…some things really do go faster than others so we have donations all year (to) keep us going,” Mangwendeza said.

According to Mangwendeza, Corky’s Cupboard is most in need of grains and snacks, like potato chips, since those tend to be picked up the most often.

“Grains, particularly like rice and pasta, usually go really quick, so we kind of have a race to replenish those,” Mangwendeza said.

During colder months, there is a change in the type of items that students collect from Corky’s Cupboard.

“Soups definitely, the hot chocolate...noodles, Ramen, they go pretty fast in the colder months,” Mangwendeza said.

Corky’s Cupboard uses Pantry Works, a program that keeps track of clients, items in stock and the number of items that have been picked up by students.

According to Mangwendeza, while he’s been working, there hasn’t been a day that a student hasn’t come in to pick up items.

Corky’s Cupboard is open 12-5 p.m. on Monday and

Katie Ollenburger, junior elementary education major and a community hornets coordinator, replaces the food on the shelf yesterday afternoon in Corky’s Cupboard in the Memorial Union. It is open on Mondays and Thursdays from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. to offer ESU students free living supplies and food. Xiangru Chen | The Bulletin

Thursday, located in Memorial Union room 147, according to emporia.edu. The only requirement to pick up food is that users are enrolled at

ESU. “It’s a really great reStudents can visit once a source for students,” Manweek and can take up to 10 gwendeza said. items per visit, according to emporia.edu.

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We are done with intolerance

You hear it all the time: We live in a time of political polarization.

It’s the right vs. the left, us vs. them, republicans vs. democrats, conservatives vs. liberals.

We tie ourselves to these labels and we don’t want to listen to any opposing viewpoints.

Despite what political part of the spectrum you find yourself aligned with, we are all guilty of this.

In fact, by this part of the staff ed, it is likely that 80 percent of readers stopped reading.

That’s not a judgement.

It’s a fact.

Humans don’t like their worldview to be shaken.

We like to think that we’re right and the other person is wrong, or uninformed or just plain crazy.

We like to place blame on individuals instead of the

system that keep us at each other’s throats.

It is in this process that we have forgotten how to have an argument, how to disagree and how to convince others of our side, instead of just shutting down and saying “you’re just wrong.”

I know it’s hard.

You get drained and scared and angry and you can’t comprehend why anyone would disagree with this very obvious point you just made.

But that’s why being able to have these discussions is so important.

We must find out their reasons for believing what they do so we can have a conversation and convince them of our side.

We can no longer afford to be intolerant.

The stability and safety of our country depends on it.

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Valentine’s Day is what you make of it

R ayna K arst rkarst@esubulle tin.com

Valentine’s Day is coming up next Wednesday, and every year the holiday is met with mixed emotions.

Some look forward to the holiday, excited to spend time with their significant others and give and receive meaningful, heartfelt gifts.

Others dread it, seeing it as a reminder that they don’t have someone special in their lives to whom they can show their appreciation and love, and be shown appreciation and love in return.

Others still see it as a chore, a commercial holiday where they are forced to buy their partner an expensive gift, the lack of which might result in anger or

hurt feelings.

Valentine’s becomes a way for both local stores and larger, commercial corporations to guilt consumers into spending more.

As I write this I ask myself, how did this holiday become so exclusive? How were we as a population tricked into thinking of this holiday as a chore?

A burden? A reminder that not everyone has someone to love?

Why do so many people let those details dictate how they celebrate the day?

Valentine’s Day, as are many other holidays that we celebrate, is what we make of it.

You may be one of those people who look forward to the holiday, ready to show your loved ones that you care. If you are one of those, celebrate the holiday with gusto.

Don’t let other people’s opinions of Valentine’s Day dictate how you should feel. You should never feel guilty for the way that you decide to show your love and appreciation.

If you are one of those who dread the holiday, consider spending it with friends, family or classmates who you are fond of. Go out, stay in, reap the ben-

efits of half-price Valentine’s candy after the day is done.

Have a good time making the holiday your own, bringing new traditions to the table.

Just because you don’t have a partner to celebrate the day with right now doesn’t mean you won’t in the future.

Keep spreading love and appreciation to all people in your life who you care for, who may be in your same situation.

Sometimes, being reminded that someone cares about you is the only gift that matters.

Finally, if you are one who dreads the pressure of having to buy a gift for your partner, or who simply can’t afford a gift...

Don’t.

You are not obligated to do anything this holiday.

Show your love in other ways, make an agreement with your partner to celebrate any way you want. Better yet, agree to show your love and appreciation year-round.

You have the power as an individual to make what you will of Valentine’s Day. Go out and celebrate love of all kinds this holiday, and remember that social norms or societal pressures should not dictate how you choose to do so.

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So you can’t drink, but you can shoot?

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When I found out that you didn’t need a license to conceal and carry, I thought to myself, “Wow, this isn’t good. Someone is going to get hurt.”

When conceal and carry became legal on college campuses across Kansas last July, I got a little angry and that has not been a secret. I wasn’t sure what we, as a state, were getting into.

And then when we became tobacco free, I just had to laugh at the absurdity of the signs that were placed right next to each other, on every building that reminded campus that we were smoke free, but allowed concealed carry.

It just seemed so surreal.

But I thought to myself: this is it.

Legislators can’t possibly screw us over harder than they have now. We’ve reached the end zone.

But guess what?

I was dead ass wrong.

Our legislators are still ready to introduce as many guns into our school system and our state as possible.

The Kansas House of Representatives just advanced a bill last Thursday that would lower the age restriction on

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those allowed to conceal carry from 21 to 18, according to “The Topeka Capital-Journal.”

They can’t drink alcohol, but they can go buy a gun, conceal it and carry it around.

Makes sense.

And sure, once you’re 18 you can defend your country, so you should be allowed to conceal and carry, right?

According to The Topeka Capital-Journal, the military argument is “skewed because non-security U.S. Army personnel stationed at Fort Riley and similar installations were routinely prohibited from carrying weapons on base.”

As Representative John Carmichael said during the House session, “serving military personnel between 18 and 21 and even older typically do not carry weapons on base.”

While the bill also contained an amendment “limiting conceal carry on public university and community college campuses to individuals who undergo training and background checks to earn a state license,” is it enough?

To me this seems more like a dirty trick.

If we pass the law, we have a bunch of 18 year-olds running around with concealed guns.

If we don’t pass the law and we let the law stand as is, you don’t have to have any form of registration to conceal and carry. You just have to be 21.

We can’t and we shouldn’t be held hostage by our own government.

We should no longer have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

The people of Kansas deserve better than this.

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Estudiante graduada crea un editorial gratis G aby A mparan g a m pa r a n @ e s u b u l l e t i n . c o m

Usando técnicas que ha aprendido en los programas de escritura e inglés en Emporia State y conexiones que ha creado con la comunidad literaria , Katelyn Dorell, estudiante graduada en inglés y escritura creativa, ha realizado su sueño de publicar obras literarias con la creación de SlothHead Press.

“Esto no solo es algo que he creado yo misma”, dijo Dorrell.

“Es un esfuerzo colaborativo, y estoy muy agradecida que haya tenido este tipo de sistema de soporte para realizar mi sueno”.

Dorrell es una asistente graduada del programa de escritura creativa, que incluye trabajar en publicaciones en todos aspectos del programa que se tratan de diseño, planificación y comunicación, según Amy Sage Webb, profesora de ingles.

Dorrell también es instructora de una clase de introducción a escritura creativa y tiene experiencia trabajando con otros escritores jóvenes.

El semestre pasado, Dorrell recibió un premio “Best of the

Nest”, que es concedido por el Student Advising Center y es basado en recomendaciones, según Webb.

“Es muy buena”, dijo Webb.

“En empezar su propio editorial, iba necesitar que usar habilidades de cada área de su pericia”.

Dorrell ha usado sus habilidades con publicaciones y también con comunicación con otros en la comunidad literaria para lograr este proyecto, dijo Webb.

“Ningun editorial puede tener éxito sin una comunidad.

Simplemente no pasa”, dijo Webb. “Lo que veo que hace es que consigue apoyo de la comunidad que ha formado alrededor de ella”.

Dorrell trabaja y se comunica con ilustradores, autores, editores y publicadores para lograr sus metas con SlothHead, según ella. Al momento, está colaborando con Hailey East, alumna de ESU, entre otros.

“Estamos en clases de escritura creativa, y ella (Dorrell) siempre ha sido muy creativa e inteligente”, dijo East. “Tiene un gran entusiasmo por cada

Negocios locales en la calle Commercial ofrecen especiales de San Valentín J ose M edrano jmedrano@esubulle tin.com

Muchos negocios locales en la calle Commercial están ofreciendo especiales o eventos para el día de San Valentín, que ocurre en menos de una semana.

"Todos tenemos diferentes tipos de tarjetas de San Valentín, tenemos a nuestros nietos y tenemos a nuestros compañeros de trabajo, y por supuesto tenemos a nuestro novio o novia y otras personas importantes”, dijo Kim Redeker, propietaria de Sweet Granada, 803 Commercial.

"Entonces, tenemos una gran variedad de regalos que se adaptan a todas esas tarjetas de San Valentín”.

La Sweet Granda estará vendiendo juegos de dulces personalizados, pero Redeker dijo que su especial más grande serán las fresas cubiertas con chocolate que se preparan solo para el Día de San Valentín. Estas vienen en media-docenas y docenas por $14.95 y $28.95.

"Vamos a tener una cena de San Valentín para los enamorados, es el 14 de febrero”, dijo Diana Wilhite, empleada de Twin Rivers Winery y Gourmet Shop, 627 Commercial. "Es una comida de cuatro platos de Radius, y tiene vino”.

La cena de San Valentín será a las 6:00 p.m. y cuesta $90 por pareja. Los interesados deben ​​ de hacer reservaciones con anticipación.

La Librería de Ellen Plumb, 1122 Commercial St., ofrecerá el segundo Poetas Plumb anual el 12 y 14 de febrero de 10:00 a.m. a las 6:00 p.m.

El costo es cinco dólares por poema que va directamente al poeta. También ofrecen trufas exclusivas de chocolate.

"Ofreceremos la oportunidad de venir y tener un poema original compuesto por un poeta para ellos o para alguien a quien aman”, dijo Marcia Lawrence, dueña de Ellen Plumb.

Los Diseños de Sharon, 703 Commercial, ofrecerán arreglos de rosas con dulces gratis como un especial de San Valentín si se les ordena que se entreguen los lunes, martes o miércoles de la semana del día de San Valentín.

"Cada vez que alguien nos pida una docena de rosas, obtendrá cuatro cupcakes, dos de chocolate y dos de vainilla junto con su docena de arreglos de rosas”, dijo Sharon Ewing, la dueña de Diseños de Sharon. "(Cuestan) $ 79.95, eso está arreglado en un jarrón y todo”.

Entregan en todo Emporia, además de ofrecer otros especiales en toda la tienda.

historia, algo que siempre he apreciado”.

SlothHead Press empezó en octubre del 2017, y ha trabajado en libros juveniles y novelas, según Dorrell.

“Esto es muy nuevo, pero estoy muy emocionada con todas las oportunidades que he tenido por el departamento de escritura creativa y el programa de ingles para aprender como hacer todas estas cosas”, dijo Dorrell. “Y aprender cómo colaborar con gente que tiene diferentes visiones artísticas y crear relaciones con diferentes personas, es una habilidad valuable”.

Dorrell está trabajando en su tesis de maestría y planea en graduarse este mayo, según ella. Después de graduarse, espera ver que SlothHead crezca y prospere.

“El sueño es que trabajaría con SlothHead por tiempo completo, pero va tomar un rato hasta que eso sea posible”, dijo Dorrell. “Entonces creo que seguire a ser instructora como lo soy ahora, y continuare a trabajar en publicaciones hasta que llegue al punto de que sea un trabajo de tiempo completo”.

Katelyn Dorrell, estudiante graduada en escritura creativa le ayuda a Margaret Clark, estudiante de segundo año en enfermería, con una tarea durante clase el martes en Plumb Hall. Dorrell creó su editorial, SlothHead Press, que abrió el octubre pasado y se puede encontrar en www. slothheadpress.com. Gabriel Molina Maruda | The Bulletin

Grupo discute mentiras C esar S anchez csanchez@esubulle tin.com

El jueves pasado, el grupo del poeta, el pastor y el filósofo tuvo una discusión abierta sobre mentiras con estudiantes y facultad de Emporia State y también con miembros de la comunidad.

El grupo fue grabado y presentado en vivo para razones arqueales.

“Mi única preocupación es que ahorita mucha gente con la que hablo dice ‘¿pues si todos están mintiendo, que chiste tiene?’ y luego nos silencian”, dijo Phyllis Stutzman, pastora de la iglesia presbiteriana de Emporia. “No es que estamos buscando la verdad, solamente decidimos que todo es una mentira y que no tiene chiste.

Ahí es donde empiezo a ponerme nerviosa, cuando se decide que buscar la verdad es irrelevante”.

El grupo discutó como todos sus pasados se tratan de mentiras y verdades, la época de hoy en día de verdades alternativas y noticias falsas y preguntas respondidas por los que están en atendencia.

“Dándole a los periodistas un mal nombre no es

algo bueno para nuestra sociedad así que eso me preocupa como un ciudadano”, dijo Kevin Rabas, miembro del comité del departamento de inglés, lenguajes modernos y periodismo. “Esa parte de la estructura de poder de política es lo que me preocupa porque yo quiero saber la verdad, sin importar lo que sea. Podemos tener verdades simples, pero ¿podemos llegar a esta verdad esencial? ¿Está mintiendo la persona para engañarnos o simplemente no entiende lo que es la verdad? Todos estamos en ese espectro porque nunca puedo llegar completamente a la verdad, pero si puedo llegar mas cerca que algunas personas que no se interesan con la verdad”.

Charles Emmer, profesor asociado de filosofía, menciono un ensayo escrito por Harry Frankfurt titulado “On Bullshit” que describe las tres tipas de personas, mentirosos, los que dicen la verdad y los que dicen tonterías.

“La diferencia es que el que dice la verdad si le importa lo que es la verdad y el mentiroso trata de engañarte cuando trata de hacer la mentira similar a la verdad”, dijo

Emmer. El que dice tonterías no le importa la verdad solo le gusta decirlaso. Le gusta engañarl a la gente y le gusta el juego, el arte. Mucha gente ha visto este libro recientemente porque toda esta platica de la verdad alternativa y noticias falsas y todos tipos de preguntas que están en el aire, esta idea de el que dice tonterías se está convirtiendo muy popular para hablar sobre este tipo”.

La manera en que nuestros cerebros perciben información y lo que podemos recordar también fue discutido.

“Con el reconocimiento, todo lo que recordamos, no va ser una fotografía de las experiencias”, dijo Kelly McEnerney, profesora asistente de psicología. “He visto muchos estudios sobre memoria que sugiere que nunca recordamos la realidad. Que va ser pintado por lo que percibimos porque ese evento o esa hora del día, nuestro estado, nuestro modo, no va ser igual. Todo lo que recordamos va ser ficcional en un alcance”.

No hay una fecha específica o tema para la próxima junta del poeta, el pastor y el filósofo.

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Phyllis Stutzman, pastora de la iglesia presbiteriana de Emporia y panelista para la discusión de mentiras, discute cómo la iglesia opina sobre mentiras y que consideran mentiras. En el panel de la serie de un poeta, un pastor y un filósofo estuvo Kevin Rabas, director del departamento de inglés, idiomas modernos y periodismo, Charles Emmer, profesor asociado de filosofía y Kelly McEnerney, profesora asistente de psicología. Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin

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Hornets are feeling the love How are ESU students celebrating Valentine’s Day?

Do ESU students like or dislike Valentine’s Day?

“Nothing. I’m just going to

“No. I think that it should be

wait until the day after to get candy on a discount.”

on every day of the year.”

J ennifer G illenwater S e n i o r R e h a b i l i tat i o n M a j o r

D aryl B radley Junior Criminal Justice Major

“Me and my friends are getting together and having a little dinner.”

“Probably study and Netflix.”

N ichole B uller

R achel O wens

Freshman Crime & Delinquency Studies Major

Freshman Crime & Delinquency Studies Major

“Me and my friend Jenny will

“I’m probably going to be do-

have a Galentine’s day.”

ing homework.”

K atelynn B utler

C assie G illenwater

Sophomore English Educ aiton Major

Freshman Uncecided

Kansas bill to teach gun safety to students with NRA program

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would require certain curriculum for schools offering gun safety courses.

The bill wouldn't require schools to provide gun safety training. Schools are already permitted to teach it in Kansas, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported .

The proposed legislation would mandate schools offering training for children in kindergarten through eighth grade to use the National Rifle Association's "Eddie Eagle Gunsafe" program.

High schools offering training would have to use the hunter safety program offered by the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism.

Most lawmakers on Tuesday supported providing gun safety training to students.

The bill was brought by Republican Rep. John Whitmer, a proponent of past pro-firearm legislation.

The NRA began its gun safety program in 1988, said Travis Couture-Lovelady, a liaison for the association and a former state representative.

"The idea behind it is that we talk to children about stranger danger, internet safety, fire drills — a number of different dangers they need to be education about that they come across in life, so why not gun safety?" he said.

But some argued that requiring a particular curriculum course would represent an overreach by state government into decisions that should be made by local school boards.

"Our opposition certainly isn't about gun training or safety training," said Rob Gilligan, government relations specialist with the Kansas Association of School Boards.

"As many of our conferees testified before, gun and safety training already occurs in Kansas schools."

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deep, so people might not think it’s as therapeutic as someone else,” Huseman said.

“We, coming into a profession, that’s predominately female, we have to...work a little bit harder to try and get that trust, especially with patients because they’re not used to having males as nurses,” Rodriguez said. “Being male, and not being high numbers (of male nurses), I have to make sure I’m on par with everybody else.”

continued from page 1 Therapeutic touch is a technique used in nursing when patients are distressed and could involve a touch on the hand or shoulder, to help calm the patient, according to Asher Huseman, sophomore nursing major.

“Therapeutic touch is big part of nursing, from a male, especially with a guy like me, my voice is really

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University implements interfaith room S arah S poon sspoon@esubulle tin.com

The University Diversity and Inclusion Alliance met last Monday to discuss their semester goals, the campus climate survey and their interfaith initiative. The meeting was attended by 12 faculty members and two students.

“I’ve been asked to implement an interfaith initiative for the institution,” said Jason Brooks, assistant dean of students for diversity, equity and inclusion. “We have established an interfaith space here on campus...The space will be completely open to students, faculty and staff for religious purposes or non-religious purposes.”

The space will be room 434 in Southeast Morse and will be available around the end of April.

The alliance also reviewed the success of past diversity events that took place on campus.

“There has been a significant amount of learning that has been going on,” said Deanna Williams, director of diversity programs. “Whether it has been MLK or Black History Month

events, from the students. We have been getting reflections whether it’s from a professor or just people coming up to us and just saying ‘students were impacted by it and they’re able to articulate how they were impacted by the speaker.’”

Speakers have offered student internships, jobs and just general networking possibilities, according to Brooks and Williams.

Another goal of the alliance is to submit a campus climate survey assessment and evaluation which Gary Wyatt, associate provost, is in charge of.

Wyatt got permission from the University of Chicago to use their campus climate survey.

“The survey will be delivered on campus labs, on the e-platform there,” Wyatt said.

“It’s all ready to go. The only thing we are waiting for now is for Marketing and Media Relations to do a little publicity for us.”

In the survey, students will be asked to rate the campus and their departments climate from sexist to nonsexist, racist to nonracist, homophobic to nonhomophobic and intolerant to tolerant of disability accom-

Mark Daly, dean of international education, listens as Jason Brooks, co-chair of the alliance and assistant dean of students for for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, talks about the new alliance initiatives. The next meeting will take place in April. Sarah Spoon | The Bulletin

“We expect the entire thing up and ready to go by the end modations. The survey will also ask students about any will be sent out in two weeks,” of spring.”

The next alliance meeting harassment or discrimination Wyatt said. “It looks like we will have this whole thing wrapped will take place in April. they’ve experienced.

Music department honors famous musician in concerts tivities. “Bernstein is certainly one of America’s foremost in rkarst@esubulle tin.com all of those categories.”

Bernstein was a brilliant Ensembles in the Emporia conductor, pianist, music State music department are educator and composer, acfeaturing works of Leonard cording to Gary Ziek, director Bernstein, famous American of bands.

He also did many musician, in each concert television broadcasts that brought music to millions of people.

“I regard Bernstein as arguably the greatest American musician who has ever lived,” Ziek said. “For musicians, he holds a very important place in our hearts because he is such a monument, sort of like a renaissance man of music.”

Though this is not an official tribute throughout the music department, the band, choir and orchestra are all featuring Bernstein works throughout the semester, according to Ziek.

“We thought it would be nice to do a little homage to Bernstein this year,” Ziek said.

The band will be playing a work titled “Suite from Mass,” which was written to Gary Ziek, professor in music and Director of Bands, leads the band in rehearsal on Tuesday in the band room in commemorate the Kennedy Beach Hall. The band, choir and orchestra will each feature works from American composer Leonard Bernstein this Center of the Arts in Washsemester. Tingxuan Lu | The Bulletin ington D.C., Ziek said. The piece uses parts of Catholic

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they perform this semester in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Bernstein was born Aug. 25, 1918, and died Oct. 14, 1990, according to leonardbernstein.com. He wrote, among many other works,

music for the well-known musical “West Side Story.”

“As an educational institution it’s really important that we recognize the pinnacles of composing, of conducting, of being a musician,” said Robert Ward, director of choral ac-

mass service and treats them in contemporary ways, using style influences from jazz, symphonic and rock ’n’ roll music.

“It was a very controversial piece when it premiered, and I think it’s some of Bernstein's greatest music,” Ziek said. “The music is just alternately beautiful and driving, and then very primitive at times, very profound at times.”

A choir, which will be made up of the ESU A Capella Choir and the Emporia Chorale, will be teaming up with the Emporia Symphony Orchestra to perform Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms,” according to Ward. Bernstein was commissioned by the Chichester Cathedral in Sussex, England, to write this piece.

“We’re certainly excited to offer this, and it has been an excellent challenge for the choir and the orchestra,” Ward said. “It’s just a really dramatic piece of music.”

The band concert is at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 in Albert Taylor Hall, and the choir and orchestra concert is at 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 27 in Albert Taylor Hall.

Junior American Legion baseball team gives experience to players, community feel to Emporia B ethany B owman bbowman@esubulle tin.com

In Emporia, Kansas, baseball season isn’t just in the spring.

While the high school season ends in May, many players continue their play into the summer, suiting up for the American Legion team.

There are several divisions, ranging from ‘A,’ the 17 and under team, to ‘AA’ and ‘AAA’, 19 and under teams.

School size and surrounding school size determine these divisions, with total enrollment of all schools represented on the team.

This coming summer, Emporia will have an Amer-

ican Legion A and AAA team. Last summer, Emporia only had an A team, the American Legion Post 5.

Post 5 is coached by Anthony Markowitz, a former Emporia High and Emporia State baseball player, and Emporia High’s current head baseball coach. This year will be his third year managing and coaching.

He previously coached one summer as the AAA head coach.

“Emporia Legion baseball has a long history,” Markowitz said. “There have been some great baseball players from the Emporia and surrounding areas and the majority of them played

Legion baseball. It’s great for our community.”

Just this past season, the team won a state championship, defeating Great Bend 11-3.

“The most fun part about it is seeing the players’ work pay off in the end,” Markowitz said. “Those guys played 40+ games, at one time ten straight days and never felt sorry for themselves. They had fun playing with each other and fun winning with each other.”

The Legion teams play their home games at Soden’s Grove, a baseball field near the south side of Emporia.

With a nice field to play on, it has to be maintained so

that when summer hits, it’s ready to go.

Near the end of the fall, the field is top-dressed and overseeded, according to Rick Cunningham, Sports Supervisor at the Emporia Recreation Commission.

“There isn’t a whole lot of maintenance during the winter months,” said Cunningham. “In the spring we will clean all the leaves off and possibly put new rubber on top areas that need it.”

Playing more baseball in the summer can be a huge benefit to the players as individuals and as a team when it comes to regular-season high school baseball.

“As for the guys, there is no doubt it builds team chemistry and familiarity,” Markowitz said.

Markowitz will return this coming season to coach the Post 5 team. This year, his former ‘A’ players will have the opportunity to feel a little more at home.

“I’m excited to see how the guys have progressed,” Markowitz said. “They are another year older, more mature, and I would assume eager to play. We are hosting the “AAA” State tournament, so the nucleus of ‘A’ guys will have a chance to play in another state tournament, this time at home.”

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ESU sports reunites player with brothers

Brian Morton, senior guard, plays defense at the Jan. 28 game at White Auditorium. Morton reunited with his brothers whom he was separated from at a young age and is raising a daughter while attending ESU. Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin

C hristina W ankum c wa n k u m @ e s u b u l l e t i n . c o m

After being separated from his mother and his two brothers at eight years old, Brian Morton, senior guard and recreation major, was reunited with his brothers when he transferred to ESU to play basketball.

Morton was separated from his family after an incident involving a man and his mother. At the time of the incident, he was visiting his father in Lansing, Michigan, Morton said.

“A man put his hands on my mom, my mom grabbed her gun, so the police got involved and things of that

sort,” Morton said. “They ended up taking my brothers and sisters away.”

He moved to Lansing to live with his father, while his brothers went into the foster care system in Hutchinson, Kansas.

“I went from growing up with them, seeing them every day, to seeing them once every couple years,”

SPORTS SHORTS

Softball opens season at Lubbock Christian Tournament C hristina W ankum c wa n k u m @ e s u b u l l e t i n . c o m

The Women’s Hornet Softball tournament opened their season this past February 2-4 as they played in the Lubbock Christian Tournament. This tournament allowed for the Hornets to play five games over the course of three days in Lubbock, Texas. They went 2-3 in tournament play.

“For our first weekend back to start off the spring season, I think we did very well,” said Hailey Cope, senior infielder. “Just like with anything else, there is always room for improvement and opportunities to learn from.

We mesh very well together on and off the field and I'm very excited to see where the season takes us.”

The first game was played against Lubbock Christian University. This was a high scoring game, but Hornets fell

just two runs short of winning the game with a final score of 10-12.

The second game was a win for the Lady Hornets as they defeated the Colorado School of Mines, 8-5. This was an impressive comeback as the Hornets were down in the sixth inning, 5-2 and made a comeback of six points to win the game.

The Hornet’s kept their winning momentum going into their third game as they defeated Texas-Permian Basin, 7-4. They played this match on Feb. 3, Emporia State’s second game that same day.

The fourth game was a loss the following day, Feb. 4 after coming off of two wins. The Hornets played Midwestern State University and fell, 2-5.

“I think the game that was the most difficult for us was our fourth game against Midwestern State,” said freshman pitcher Montana Mesler. “Their defense shifted

on our left handed batter so it made it hard for any of our left handed hitters to get on base. We also had three home runs hit off on us that really killed us, allowing them to get 5 runs.”

The fifth and final game of the tournament was a tight one against Chadron State University. In the end, the Hornets fell, 4-5 and ended their three day tournament play, 2-3.

“We showed a lot of great potential this weekend in all aspects of the game with our pitching, hitting, and defense but that (consistency) wasn’t there the whole time,” said senior first baseman Danielle Sprinkle. “The next step will be to put all of that together for a full seven innings.”

The Lady Hornets will play their next tournament matches in Bentonville, Arkansas Feb. 10. There will be four teams competing in the ArkMonticello DII Classic.

After an early lead, Hornets fall to Kearney C hristina W ankum c wa n k u m @ e s u b u l l e t i n . c o m

In an away game against Nebraska Kearney, the Hornet Men gave up a 10-point lead early in the first quarter to fall to the Lopers in a 70-57 loss.

The Hornets began the game with a three pointer by Brandon Hall, junior guard, just a minute and sixteen seconds into the match.

On a three-pointer by junior forward Hassan Thomas, the Hornets took the largest lead of the night early in the game.

They widened the gap to a 10

point lead, raising the score to 31-21 over the Lopers.

As the first quarter progressed, the Hornets continued their strong offense and the points continued to fall as the score was 35-25 with just 3:15 left in the half.

However, Nebraska Kearney followed up with a 7-2 run going into the locker room.

As a continuation of the previous half, the Lopers widened their run to 16-2 at the start of the second half.

With 12:53 left in the third quarter, the Hornets were short of the Lopers by just three points as the score was

44-41.

The Lopers took a 10-1 run soon after, creating a substantial lead, 54-42. A three pointer by sophomore guard Grant Shell allowed for the Hornets to close the gap, now only trailing by eight points.

This was the final time that the score gap would not be in the double digits. The score closed at 70-57, a 13 point loss for the Hornets.

Emporia State will play again at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at White Auditorium. They will take on Missouri Western.

Morton said.

He was able to visit them twice before he reunited with them at ESU, with his father when he was 12 and again when he was 19, Morton said.

“During high school, we kept in contact through Facebook, social media, things like that,” Morton said.

However, it wasn’t until Morton was recruited from community college in Lansing, where he played basketball, and transferred to ESU that he was able to build a strong relationship with his brothers.

Although one of his greatest accomplishments was earning a scholarship that allowed him to get an education, the best part was the chance to meet his two brothers, Morton said.

When Morton arrived at ESU, his brothers, Deshawn Dinwiddie and Deveon Dinwiddie, were playing football at Emporia State after transferring from North Dakota State University, according to esuhornets. com.

They played football for ESU in 2014, according to Don Weast, associate athletic director.

“My brother Deshawn was still attending ESU, I think he was running track and field and Devon lived in Emporia, so I was able to see

both of them,” Morton said.

“That was the first time I’d seen them since I was little so it was crazy.”

Morton and his brothers have continued their strong bonds as the three now see each other on a consistent basis and all live in the same state.

“We’re all close now, we’re all in Kansas again,” Morton said. “I see them often.”

However, his brothers weren’t the only family that Morton gained during his time at ESU. Morton is also a father to a seven month old named Joy. She is very important to him, Morton said.

“It’s an everyday challenge being a father, the amount of work that goes in is like having three jobs,” Morton said.

She’s very curious, according to Morton.

“She’s always roaming around,” Morton said. “She just started crawling around so she’s always getting into stuff and she eats anything.”

Morton says that he is going to encourage Joy to play basketball when she gets older.

He sees the importance in it, how it taught him values such as dedication and teamwork that he will bring into his career and has brought into his decision making in general.

ESU Baseball struggles in Texas season opener M ackenzie T hornton mthornton@esubulle tin.com

The ESU baseball team opened their season in Grand Prairie, Texas at the Air Hogs DII Classic with four straight losses.

Despite being ranked 29th in preseason polls, the Hornets fell to lesser teams due to defensive errors and a lack of timely offense.

“This wasn’t the start that we could have imagined with this team,” said Mack Gowing, senior outfielder. “Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. The best part of baseball is that the sun still comes up the next day, and we are excited to get back on the winning train next weekend.”

Starting the season against Southern Arkansas University, the Hornets jumped ahead with a quick home run by senior outfielder Bryce Fischer.

This would be the only run the Hornets scored all game.

Held by senior pitcher Seth Holman, SAU did not score until the fifth inning.

The Muleriders took the lead with an RBI sac fly and a ground out.

Holman stayed in the game until the seventh inning, where he was relieved by senior pitcher Jacob Tetuan. Tetuan gave up back to back homeruns in the eighth inning, giving SAU insurance going into the final inning.

The following day, the baseball team came back to play Oklahoma Christian, but fell early in the game and could not come back.

The Hornets were outhit 12-6 for the game against

OCU, and ESU’s defense committed four errors.

Junior pitcher Tanner Cairns took the loss.

Saturday’s game against Arkansas Tech proved to be more offensive, as ESU’s bats scored seven runs on the day. After the first inning, ESU was down 1-0, but the Hornets took the lead in the fourth inning 3-1. The bottom of the fourth inning opened with ATU taking the lead 8-3.

In the seventh inning, Ark Tech scored another five runs to seal the deal, as ESU was never able to wake their bats at the end of the game. Adam Thies, junior, was the pitcher that recorded the loss.

In their final game, the Hornets took on the Savage Storm of Southeastern Oklahoma. ESU scored their only runs of the game in the second inning.

ESU was outhit 17-7, and Nathan Gieber, senior pitcher, started the game, but took the 7-2 loss.

Senior outfielder Bryce Fischer finished the weekend with a .400 batting average, followed by senior outfielder Mack Gowing with a .250 batting average.

“It’s tough going out there and playing the way we did, but we will continue to work for the next task at hand,” said Fischer. “We just have to work through this as a team.”

The Hornets will travel to Denver, Colorado to play the Metropolitan State University of Denver on Friday, Feb. 9 through the 11.

All statistics have been provided by esuhornets. com.